Bill Press: Three take-aways from Jan. 6 hearings
The nation has seen blockbuster congressional hearings before: the Army-McCarthy hearings, which wrecked the career of the hateful Senator Joseph McCarthy; the Watergate hearings, which forced the resignation of President Richard Nixon; and the Iran-Contra hearings, which exposed President Ronald Reagan’s plot to sell arms to Iran in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
But we’ve never seen a set of hearings like the Jan. 6 hearings now underway. As David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones, told
